First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amidon - Bowen. The Md. tags are back in full force. Out for that free daycare of all day school and free Title 1 lunches. All on the District's dime. No one cares. The DCPS oversight hearing is coming up. Time to make some noise.

Free stuff to people who don't live in Washington DC, all courtesy of the DC taxpayers. And stealing desirable spots and scarce resources that otherwise would go to deserving DC students.

[Anonymous]

Why is it that no one in DCPS cares? Is it because the school gets funding per head count? How can a principal be incentivized to care? Obviously just doing the right thing isn't a notion that works or has results.

[Anonymous]

We've spent... What, seventy pages showing you examples of why someone might be driving a car with put of state plates? Non custodial parents. Foster kids. Homeless kids. Nannies. Grandparents. Etc. Etc. Nothing makes any difference, because your real issue here is that you are incensed amidon Bowen had poor children attending it and you want it to be full of effete lulelmon'ed parents like your lself.

No point arguing with you, so all I can do is bring up, again, the seventy-thousand dollar SUV with Hebrew bumper stickers and Maryland tags I see dropping off at Sela every day. Personally, I think it belongs to someone's grandparent or non custodial parent too. But I'd like you to include it in your outrage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've spent... What, seventy pages showing you examples of why someone might be driving a car with put of state plates? Non custodial parents. Foster kids. Homeless kids. Nannies. Grandparents. Etc. Etc. Nothing makes any difference, because your real issue here is that you are incensed amidon Bowen had poor children attending it and you want it to be full of effete lulelmon'ed parents like your lself.

No point arguing with you, so all I can do is bring up, again, the seventy-thousand dollar SUV with Hebrew bumper stickers and Maryland tags I see dropping off at Sela every day. Personally, I think it belongs to someone's grandparent or non custodial parent too. But I'd like you to include it in your outrage.

We've spent 70 pages showing you examples of real cheaters and how DCPS and OSSE don't seem to care, and yet you keep insisting there's nothing to see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've spent... What, seventy pages showing you examples of why someone might be driving a car with put of state plates? Non custodial parents. Foster kids. Homeless kids. Nannies. Grandparents. Etc. Etc. Nothing makes any difference, because your real issue here is that you are incensed amidon Bowen had poor children attending it and you want it to be full of effete lulelmon'ed parents like your lself.

No point arguing with you, so all I can do is bring up, again, the seventy-thousand dollar SUV with Hebrew bumper stickers and Maryland tags I see dropping off at Sela every day. Personally, I think it belongs to someone's grandparent or non custodial parent too. But I'd like you to include it in your outrage.

No, I am incensed that cheating MD parents are sneaking their kids in, fleecing the DC taxpayers and robbing some poor DC school kids of a coveted good school spot or resources that otherwise could have been spent on them. You can cite all the excuses you want, which may be valid in particular cases, but in the aggregate don't come close to explaining the sheer volume of MD cars dropping off students who are clearly their kids.

[Anonymous]

The cultural notion of the ancestral home in DC (eg Grandma's place, where Mom grew up) is strong and people think that gives them a claim to residency.

That is how I'm sure many people are doing this. The thing is if they get some mail at grandmas place and keep a DC drivers license they have enough documentation to prove residency. Unless we want to interview every child and follow everyone home for a month and document where the child is sleeping it is going to continue. It comes with living close to a border and offering free PK3 and 4 and aftercare. Those aren't available in the surrounding counties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cultural notion of the ancestral home in DC (eg Grandma's place, where Mom grew up) is strong and people think that gives them a claim to residency.

That is how I'm sure many people are doing this. The thing is if they get some mail at grandmas place and keep a DC drivers license they have enough documentation to prove residency. Unless we want to interview every child and follow everyone home for a month and document where the child is sleeping it is going to continue. It comes with living close to a border and offering free PK3 and 4 and aftercare. Those aren't available in the surrounding counties.

Why should DC taxpayers be giving a free ride and free stuff to PG residents? Washington, DC has enough needs to deal with. I don't give a crap about culture or grandma or porous borders. One is either a DC resident or not and the schools need to be following up on this. Other jurisdictions do, but the Third World style tolerance of chiseling and corruption is still alive in DC I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cultural notion of the ancestral home in DC (eg Grandma's place, where Mom grew up) is strong and people think that gives them a claim to residency.

That is how I'm sure many people are doing this. The thing is if they get some mail at grandmas place and keep a DC drivers license they have enough documentation to prove residency. Unless we want to interview every child and follow everyone home for a month and document where the child is sleeping it is going to continue. It comes with living close to a border and offering free PK3 and 4 and aftercare. Those aren't available in the surrounding counties.

True, but if the parents are paying Maryland income and property taxes, that should be easy enough to prove, as those two DCPS officers who are being hit with a 200 K tuition bill have discovered.

[Anonymous]

You are a broken, sad, obsessive little record on this topic. All you do is repeat over and over again that pg kids are fleecing the DC taxpayers. You know, because living in pg, where the taxes are more, makes perfect sense. You want to go report more people? Do so. No one is stopping you.

But I'm also not going to stop mocking your obsession with amidon and the license plates of cars driving past it.

[Anonymous]

I'm proud to report I got a cheater kicked out of Janney finally after fighting for 3 months.

Stick with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm proud to report I got a cheater kicked out of Janney finally after fighting for 3 months.

Stick with it.

Where were they leaving?

[Anonymous]

Living! Sorry...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are a broken, sad, obsessive little record on this topic. All you do is repeat over and over again that pg kids are fleecing the DC taxpayers. You know, because living in pg, where the taxes are more, makes perfect sense. You want to go report more people? Do so. No one is stopping you.

But I'm also not going to stop mocking your obsession with amidon and the license plates of cars driving past it.

NP. Property taxes are more in PG than DC, not income taxes. People that cheat from PG are not homeowners, they are taking advantage of cheaper rents, larger homes, and free PK/aftercare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm proud to report I got a cheater kicked out of Janney finally after fighting for 3 months.

Stick with it.

Congratulations! Residency cheating hurts everyone (in Washington, DC at least).

[Anonymous]

Our school does home visits. No one could get away with this.